Mom Sequitur: Don’t Put Me in a Suitcase
Pueblo was in the news - even national news. You might have seen video of a guy throwing a big suitcase into a dumpster. Guess what - his mom was…
Mom Sequitur: Duke’s Mayonaisse
I have a friend here who is from the south and that’s one huge thing she misses about being in Colorado. One day I was in the dollar store and…
Musta been tough to be a copy editor at the Chicago Tribune back in the day
Thumbing through a 1967 special section of the Chicago Tribune we found at an estate sale and noticed that they spelled through and though as thru and tho, like the kids…
The intellectual origin of dummy text
I'm starting to think that maybe I don't know a lot of things. Today I discovered that Lorem Ipsum isn't just fake Latin. It's taken from Cicero's De Finibus Bonorum…
I have a beef with the Denver Post
When you're creative, it's important to have someone in your life who can tell you that what you think is clever is actually just stupid. How do I know? Because…
It’s a pity about this backpack’s name
I know. It's supposed to sound like fuel. But that's not what I see whenever I come across someone with one of these dumb backpacks. Instead, my brain reads it…
Don’t like singular they? Tell Mike Tyson.
Everyone has a plan till they get punched in the mouth. Obviously, this brilliant quote from Iron Mike works both literally and figuratively. But it's a great and timely…
Hit the ground and just take it easy for a bit, you ninjas
You see this a lot in job advertisements: Candidates need to be able to hit the ground running. Hit the ground running. I guess what this really means is that…
Very curious.
There's this regional bank in my, uh, region that uses the tagline: The curious bank. Every time I see it, though, I read curious as strange: The strange bank. I…
‘In Dog We Trust’ isn’t the real blasphemy here
Remember that time the Vatican misspelled Jesus on a commemorative coin? Solid comedy gold. Now some sheriff's office in Florida misspelled God on its office rug. But you know what's…